The 11:59 PM Blackout 11:59 PM. The alarm reminds me that I have a meeting with Mick Jagger and his remaining associates after Charlie Watts' departure. I open Apple Music: the new Rolling Stones album will be available in a few seconds. I'm told to listen to Anna Pepe... I'm blacking out. 12:01 AM. Here it is...
Two hundred and fifty thousand tickets sold in three hours. A number that alone would be enough to make Vasco Rossi pale, whose Modena Park in 2017—until yesterday the all-time Italian record—had 225,173 spectators. Ultimo surpassed that without even bothering too much, transforming a field on the outskirts of Rome into what…
You're sweating over the umpteenth track of your epic five-act concerto. Your brain is smoking, Logic Pro is crunching data, and you're trying to fit the elegance of a string quartet into a wall of power death metal sound without it sounding like a car crash. You want to take the time to craft the perfect piece. You want to create beauty. And...
(And science proves it, in case you don't trust me) There's a prejudice that's as hard to die as a 200 BPM guitar riff: the idea that those who listen to heavy metal are potentially dangerous, unstable, and worth keeping an eye on. The grandmother who crosses the street when she sees a black Metallica T-shirt. The…
There are stories that traditional iconography has plasticized to the point of being unrecognizable. They tell you "Saint Anthony" and your brain automatically serves up a holy card: a white lily, a baby Jesus in his arms, reassuring pastel colors. Composed devotion. Silence. Incense. No. Remove the patina. Scrape away the hypocrisy of institutional narratives. What you find below is not an essay by…
(i.e., a 12-inch average finger) It's 2026. We have gadgets in our pockets with enough computing power to send Apollo 11 to Mars—and back—at least fifteen times. We have Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music: monstrous platforms that, for the price of a few coffees at the bar, open up…
Running an independent blog in 2026, in the midst of a tap-tap world, seems like a geometric contradiction. Science—or at least the marketers who sell it that way—tells us that the average human attention span has fallen below that of a goldfish. If a TikTok video doesn't show a guy doing something...
There's always something mystical, almost religious, when a band that made prog-rock history releases a new album. We're talking about Yes, the band that shaped entire generations of musicians. Even if you're not familiar with the genre, who hasn't hummed or simply nodded along to the opening riff of Owner Of…
Some dates come back, silent and full of meaning. For me, April 10th became one of those dates. A year ago, 26 Rails, my instrumental double album, was released. Twenty-six tracks, two parts of thirteen each, no vocals. And probably the most authentically mine I've ever released. How a work is born...
(Or: How We Sold Anger in Installments, and Those Who Refused to Sign) 🎵 If you want to listen while you read, here's a playlist of 10 historic songs. Let's start with an uncomfortable truth: protest music isn't dead. It just disguised itself so well that it seemed dead, and we fell for it like…
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